Inga Leonova
Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) on discourse in the Church
Excerpts from an interview with Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh with Russkaia Mysl August 1, 2000
Published by Sourozh, August, 2000
An excerpt from An autobiography of Jasmin Roy
An excerpt from An autobiography of Jasmin Roy, Les Éditions des Intouchables, Montreal 2010, in French.
Jasmin Roy eventually found a fulfilling career in the performing arts, after a horrible youth in which he endured years of bullying and the tacit participation of adults and educators. They exacerbated his persecution through their own ignorance and silence, or even by joining in the laughter of oppressor youth, and finally in their trivialization of his youthful burdens. He writes of the slow and faithful friendships and long therapy which lifted him from near suicidal anxiety and self-deprecation. This brief excerpt makes a poignant appeal against ignorance which breeds oppression, and underlines the complexity of human relations and personality that cannot be reduced to sexual orientation alone.
The Body’s Grace
By Rowan Williams
To ask, “Why does sex matter?” sounds a rather futile way of beginning an address in these circumstances. It’s rather obvious that it does matter, and that it matters in different ways to different people. To some it matters as a cause for alarm, to others as a cause for celebration: there would be less need for LGCM and kindred organisations if sex were not alarming to so many, and less impetus to join or support LGCM, if sex were not something a little more than another good cause.
Fr. Alexis Vinogradov on “issues” and “persons”
The idea I mentioned of individual uniqueness could be construed by rubricists of every ilk as the slippery slope to situational ethics, the mantra of pre-Woodstock ditching of all societal norms. However, I still maintain, as the central discovery of my priesthood, that we are moment to moment “sent” on an unprecedented discovery of a unique creation of God, that has never before been imagined, and will never be repeated. To that creature, I must find a unique response, willed by God. I won’t find answers in a book, though the books may guide me. Like a good physician, I now have to bring to bear everything in my arsenal and make a once-in-a-lifetime decision. This act is a cross, which in my falleness I seek to avoid; I recuse myself from life by appeal to the dead letter of secure laws.
Open Letter to Metropolitan Jonah
Most Blessed Jonah
Archbishop of Washington
Metropolitan of All America and Canada
P.O. Box 675
Syosset, NY 11791
December 28, 2010
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
Your Beatitude,
Most Blessed Master, Bless!
It is with a heavy heart that I resolved to write you this open letter. I have refrained from addressing you with these issues ever since your first speech as a newly elected Metropolitan at the closing banquet at the All-American Council. For the most part, I must confess that I harbored under the hope that some of your remarks may be attributed to the novelty of your position and that you will, with the input of your flock, reconsider some of the things you were saying at the beginning of your ministry. Even after your signing of the extremely unfortunate Manhattan Declaration I still chose to keep my peace.